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Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles.
From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame,
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips.
“Give me your tired, your poor.
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
by Emma Lazarus, New York City, 1883
In 1798, Thomas Jefferson instructed that “Congress has not unlimited power to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.”
Wilson Nicholas, a delegate to the Virginia convention that ratified the Constitution, said, “Congress has power to define and punish for counterfeiting, and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the laws of nations; but they can not define or prescribe the punishment for other crimes whatsoever without violating the Constitution.”
Chief Justice Marshall said:
“The police power unquestionably remains, and ought to remain, with the States.”
Until this past century, federal courts upheld the view that the federal government could deal only with crimes specifically mentioned in the Constitution.
In 1911 the Supreme Court said:
“Among the powers of the State not surrendered - which powers therefore remain with the State - is the power to so regulate the relative rights and duties of all within its jurisdiction as to guard the public morals, the public safety, and the public health, as well as to promote the public convenience and the common good.”
At the founding of this Republic, there were only four federal crimes: treason, counterfeiting, piracy, and crimes against the law of nations.
Now there are three thousand federal crimes, three hundred thousand federal administrative regulations, many of which are punishable as crimes, and about eighty-five thousand local governments with five hundred thirteen thousand elected officials, or one in every five hundred people.
We have an estimated forty-five million laws - state, federal and local.
God, the Creator of the universe, gave us only ten laws with which to live our lives, and although I fail often, I try to conduct my life by those Ten Commandments.
It would be impossible, however, to obey forty-five million laws.
Those millions of laws and the government enforcers are destroying our Republic.
In 1900, one in every fifteen dollars went for government use; in the year 2000 it is nearly one in every two.
We must contend with sixty-five times more laws than our grandfathers did at the turn of the 20th Century, the most cruel and unjust of those being the tax laws.
Every federal program takes on a life of its own, so it will be extremely difficult to transfer power from the federal government to the states.
It is difficult to change, much less kill or transfer a federal program once it has been established, even after it has outlived its usefulness.
The New Deal view of an all-powerful central government must be replaced with a firm separation of powers if this republic is to survive.
Increasingly in the last hundred years, powerful corporate interests have deliberately subverted the intent of the Founders by financing the appointment of judges who would enhance corporate and federal power and weaken the constitutional system of checks and balances.
While many today attack the New Deal as representing the demise of constitutional government in America, the assaults actually began in the late 1800s, when federal courts led by the Supreme Court started chipping away at state sovereignty.
This allowed the federal government to assume numerous duties and responsibilities that under the constitution had been reserved to the states or the people.
Recalcitrant southern states did not turn to the Supreme Court to leave the Union before the Civil War, partly because the Constitution does not grant the federal courts the right to control state sovereignty.
The Constitution did not create a judicial supremacy, and there is extensive evidence that the Founders never granted the Supreme Court the power to rule over the President, Congress, or the states.
Every July 4th we honor the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
By signing that document, the founding fathers, many of whom were Deists, pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to the premise that all men are created equal, endowed by their Creator with unalienable rights, to be secured by a government that was subject to and inferior to the consent of the governed.
The British pursued them as traitors to the king.
Of the fifty-six original signers, nine did not live to see freedom, five were imprisoned, and seventeen lost everything they had.
Their sacrifice for the Constitution of the United States has guided this nation through a continuing effort to bring liberty and justice for all.
Can any of us do less?
The courage of America’s founders was based on their belief in God’s Providence.
George Washington called America’s liberties “the object of Divine protection.”
James Madison, President and signer of the Constitution, affirmed their beliefs, saying, “Before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.”
At the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin began the tradition of prayers in Congress, saying, “In the beginning of the contest with Great Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayer in this room for Divine protection.
Our prayers, sir, were heard, and they were graciously answered.
I have lived, sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth - that God governs in the affairs of men.
And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid?”
If our liberty and nation were still under God’s protection, none of us would be reading this book; we would be in full measure out in pursuit of our happiness.
By rejecting God’s plan for our future, we have chosen to adopt man’s temporal plan, and we must suffer the consequences of that choice.
Many years of legal research has led me down many paths in pursuit of truth.
I didn’t receive Truth in law school or at any time during my formal education, with the exception of a one-room schoolhouse in Kentucky.
That school didn’t receive any federal funds for education, so the subject matter the teacher taught was not restricted.
Our teacher had a remarkable understanding of the national and state Constitution and the framers’ intent, along with Thomas Jefferson’s negotiations with the State legislature documented in the Kentucky Resolutions - fascinating reading then; visionary in the present day.
In later years far removed from that one-room schoolhouse, what I received at public schools supported by federal grant money was revisionist history and omission of the truth in everything other than the sciences.
After all, I had an education controlled by the federal government’s money.
I was taught what the federal and state governments wanted me to learn - nothing more, and certainly not the truth.
The old axiom that “truth is the first casualty of war” is as close to any truth that you will ever find in your investigation of the federal government.
That being the case, we have been lied to by our government and have been at war with our national government for a very long time, and I believe that is the truth.
As I write, for each of us within this country, our liberty is perishing - that liberty crushed beneath the constant growth of state and federal government power.
More than ever before, the federal, state, and local governments are confiscating citizens’ property, trampling rights, and decimating opportunities for any prosperous future you may have hoped for.
Since 1933, a concentrated effort has been made to impoverish the people of America.
Our wealth has been systematically stripped from us by rapacious taxation and outright theft in the form of usury (interest) and fractional reserve banking policy.
Federal agencies publish an average of over two hundred pages of new rulings, regulations, and proposals in the Federal Register each business day.
The expansion of the federal code is one of the most obvious measures of the increase of administrative control over the citizen.
The politicians’ effort to socially engineer society by an endless multiplication of penalties, prohibitions, taxes and prison sentences, is a dismal failure.
What has been lost in their effort is our freedom.
The attack on the individual’s rights has reached a point in our lives where a citizen has no right to the use of his own land if the bureaucracy determines it to be a wetland, no right to the money in his pocket or bank account if an IRS agent determines he has taxes owed, and no right to his property if a duck, flying south for the winter, lands in a puddle in his backyard.
A man’s home is his castle, except when a politician wants the land the house is built on for a low cost housing project.
In America today, a citizen’s use of his own property is presumed illegal until approved by multiple zoning and planning commissions.
Since 1985, federal, state, and local governments have seized the property of over two hundred thousand Americans under asset forfeiture laws, often with no more evidence of wrongdoing than an unsubstantiated assertion made by an anonymous government informant.
Government officials now exert vast arbitrary power over citizens’ daily lives, from Equal Employment Opportunity Commission bureaucrats that can levy a $145,000 fine on a St. Louis small businessman because he did not have 8.45 minorities on his payroll ... to the Minnesota and Wisconsin departments of natural resources, which regulate property so that you may not use the lake or swamp contained on your land because an endangered mouse species lives nearby.
Federal agricultural bureaucrats can prohibit Arizona farmers from selling fifty-eight percent of their fresh lemons to other Americans.
Customs Service inspectors can destroy import shipments without compensating the owners.
Federal bank regulators are officially empowered to seize the assets of any citizen for allegedly violating written or unwritten banking regulations.
Federal regulations dictate what price milk must sell for, what size California nectarines can be sold, what crops a person may grow on his own land, what apparel items a woman may sew in her own home, and how old a person must be to buy a beer, even though he is old enough to die for his country.
The Internal Revenue Service is carrying out a massive campaign against the self-employed that seeks to force over half of America’s independent contractors to abandon their own businesses.
NAFTA and GATT agreements are forcing small industries into bankruptcy because their customers have moved to Mexico or Indonesia.
Government agencies are more out of control than ever before, and the Supreme Court, the supposed bastion and protector of the Bill of Rights, has ratified the power of these federal employees.
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